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I purchased this movie after navigating a set of not very user friendly websites. I managed to watch it on my TV using its in-built browser. It would have been nice to have it available in popular streaming platforms.

As for the movie, it is hard to find words encomiastic enough. I am a white person who's interested in the theme of the advancement of people in general, and of black people in particular. I was deeply touched. Visually the film is beautiful in its black and white photography, the close plans of real people and the rhythm stemming from the various settings, including old footage, interviews and a few staged scenes.

The contents is incredibly rich. Through the various testimonies and sequences we see the power of American black intellectuals, the rationality and honesty of their positions and proposals. At the same time we also realize how well-meaning public policies sometimes fail to achieve their aims spectacularly. One aspect that I found particularly interesting was the analysis of the destruction of the black American traditional family.

My only slight complaint is the briefness of the appearance of my intellectual hero Thomas Sowell. And Herman Cain passed away a few days after the film's release.

Overall I highly recommend this documentary.

Well, this is just an excellent movie from Vasconcellos. The characters are very well worked out, the actors are very good, especially Unas and Breyner. Towards the middle the film seems to become a little slow, but drama soon picks up again until the end.

The exorcism of the African colonial war, where about one million Portuguese fought in the sixties and early seventies, is yet to be completed, but no doubt this film is an important contribution to the process. It depicts whit dark humor, disenchantment and a strange sadness the difficult lives that virtually all Portuguese had in the years after the war: those who fought in Africa; their relatives and friends in Europe; and those who lived in the colonies and had to return.